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Can't Stop Feeling


Author: Eisfuchs

Summary: Sasuke knew he made a mistake at that time. Thus should be happy to get another chance winning his best friend back, right? Wrong, because he was quite sure the last time they met, said friend has been a dude without...boobs... AU SasuFemNaru

Rated: T

Disclaimer: Naruto© belongs to Masashi Kishimoto


Chapter Three - Reunion


„Oh shit," was the only thought, which repeatedly run through Naru's mind. Her eyes were still caught in those familiar black pools, she had longed to see since that awful day Sasuke had broken her heart.

She could still remember the cruel things he had called her, said to her. She had never seen him so angry, not even when his father had been disappointed with him. First, she hadn't known what she had done wrong. She had finally gotten a family and she had just wanted to tell her best friend- her first love- but Sasuke had been as cold as ice. What had followed had been cruel words and harsh rejection.

At the end of the day, it had been Iruka to explain Sasuke's reaction and she had forgiven him in an instant. How could she not? Sasuke had been and would always be her best friend and she had caused him a lot of pain. Nevertheless, she had never regretted her decision. She had found a family that loved her the way she was. She couldn't give that back, as much as it had hurt to do this to Sasuke.

But, honestly, she had missed him. She had missed her Sasuke, the small cocky boy from back then.

However, now that he stood in front of her, she wasn't so sure anymore.

The man before her wasn't her Sasuke. This Sasukewas so much taller than her, so intimidating, with blazing dark eyes, that it send shivers down her spine. This was Sasuke the man, and no longer the sweet little boy she had known.

It scared her.

She just didn't know this Sasuke. They had been living apart for over nine years. They had lived their own lives up until know. How could she possibly say that he still was her best friend?

Easy, she couldn't.

The realization made her draw back and bump into her group's table.

Not only that. He had probably heard everything they had said. She wasn't ready for this confrontation. He had never been supposed to hear anything about her feelings, her true feelings.

She had to get away from here.

He must have read her thoughts, or maybe it had just been the desperation to flee in her eyes- people often said she was as easily to read as a book- because the next moment a scowl was on his face and he moved towards her.

A flinch left her lips and his face became even darker.

When he tried to grasp her- not that she would ever admit it- she squeaked and hastily crawled backwards over their orange table. It couldn't get any more embarrassing than now and she had done way more daring things.

Behind her she could hear movement, which meant that either Hinata had run off to get help or Ino was taking things into her own hands. Honestly, she couldn't care less about that now. She had more urgent matters: How to get away from pissed off handsome former best friends.

She was so screwed.

"Hey you, what the hell are you doing?" she could hear Ino ask.

She whimpered when Sasuke's glare became even harsher.

"S-Sasuke," she spoke uncertainty.

A loud screech made her freeze. Her eyes widened fearfully, noticing the mistake she had done.

"WHAAAT?" shrieked her friend unabashedly. This was it. She would never live this down. "This is Sasuke? Prince Charming Sasuke?"

Sasuke would kill her.

"Wow, Naru. I never thought you had it in you. But he really is one fine species of man." Ino happily babbled on. "There goes my money. He really is Mr Fucking-Sex-On-Walking-Legs."

That's it. If she had to go down, she'd take her traitor of a friend with her.

There was a blink of surprise in Sasuke's eyes when she narrowed her eyes in anger and gritted her teeth, but she ignored it in favour of turning around. Finding herself on her knees and with one hand supporting her weight, she grabbed after Ino's red ribbon with the other one and whipped the blonde down with a startled grunt. She deliberately ignored that she might have given Sasuke and his friends a perfect view on her behind.

"This is your entire fault, you damn bitch," she snarled.

The shock on Ino's face didn't last long, before one well-trimmed eyebrow was raised. "Why would that be? It's not like I forced you to talk about prince Charming, did I?"

Her reply nothing but fuelled Naru's rage. "You just don't know when to hold your fucking trap, do you?"

Ino peeked over her head and, assuming the way her eyes wandered, she was checking out Sasuke before her gaze met hers again. A creepy smile found his way on Ino's face and then, she winked at her provocatively. "Could have gone worse."

Naru's eyes widened in horror. She had a bad feeling about this. "Ino, you…"

"Imagine this," Ino started.

"Ino!"

"The perv could have heard, you'd let him feel you up-," she continued, completely ignoring her friend's desperate cry.

"INO! STOP IT!"

"-if you see your childhood sweetheart again," she finished proudly. Naru couldn't believe her. It was like the woman begged for a disaster to come.

There was an awkward shuffle from Hinata, who had apparently not left the scene. She also heard nothing from Sasuke and his group, only her uneven breathing after she had screamed at Ino, who still smiled happily.

"Interesting," commented a new voice and Naru could feel the blood in her veins freeze. Ino had lost her happy visage in favour for a nervous twitch in her eyebrow.

She glared at the blonde, before throwing a cautious look over her shoulder. She hissed threatening when she saw her arch-nemesis. Sai had always walked on silent paws. She would bet he was some kind of ninja in his former life.

Immediately her eyes went back to Ino.

The taller blonde gave her the puppy eyes with a quivering lip.

Naru's eyes bled into red.

Now, it was Ino who flinched and tried to draw back, but she only tightened the grip she had on the girl's ribbon.

"I'm sorry, alright?" she sputtered nervously. "How should I have known he was standing behind me?"

"You," Naru hissed deadly and the taller blonde gulped, scared," are gonna pay in the darkest and deepest pit of hell and I myself are going to make sure that you will suffer with every fibre in your body." And she meant it. All this had been Ino's fault. If it hadn't been for the girl, she would have never talked about Sasuke, and she would have never said those stupid things.

The new semester was going to be a disaster. She had seen the signs coming when she had to pair up with Neji because of stupid Oro-baka. And now, this.

"Hey dickless," interrupted Sai her train of thoughts. Her eyes landed back on the pale young man and she growled at him, daring him to come nearer. Sai was as unpredictable as she was with his weird way of bonding with people.

She would admit that somehow he was a friend. She even had had a little crush on him, back when the schools had their fusion, because he looked so much like Sasuke. However, the moment he had opened his mouth she had liked to smash the creepy smile off his face. What she had done. If she remembered right, he had lost a tooth on that day.

Afterwards, he had become her own little stalker, following her around like a puppy. That wasn't even the worst; it was his constant groping what pissed her off. She couldn't even predict when he was going to feel her up. He always did it at the most unexpected time.

However, this behaviour had almost disappeared when he had started going out with Ino and Naruto had been relieved to finally get a little space. He had still groped her from time to time, but she had thought this was finally the end of the whole stalking/groping issue.

She was wrong.

Because Ino and Sai broke up on a constantly basis there was also endless groping-Naru in between their get-together. She would have at least expected Ino to work against her boyfriend's unfaithful behaviour but her idiotic friend only laughed it off, saying she shouldn't overreact, it was just the way Sai was. Yeah, really nice, wasn't the girl a great friend?

So this was the only way she could react:

Bash Sai up any time he did something perverted.

"Come any closer and you'll drink your food out of a straw till you're thirty," she hissed.

"Why, aren't you mean, dickless?" he asked with his creepy smile on his face.

"Well, I'm sorry for not wanting to be you little personal bitch, asshole," she spit at him. Sai, however, wouldn't be misled by her harsh words and just kept stepping towards her, smile firmly held in place.

"It's okay, you can repay me by allowing me touch your glorious bust," he replied and Naru shivered, realizing he was earnest about the statement. Having already forgotten about her other dark-haired problem, this time she fled to the other direction, which meant crawling backwards to Sasuke. Neither of the people in the hall mentioned how stupid she looked crawling back and forwards on the table this whole time.

"Fuck off, Sai. Hell will freeze over the day I'll let you touch me," she snarled and waved her fists around furiously.

"Yeah, fuck off, Sai or Sasuke-kun is going to smash your face in," Ino interrupted their weird argument, glaring at her ex-boyfriend.

Naru froze. Also, now, she could actually feel the warm body behind her. Only seconds later she also realized who exactly was still standing there. She was so not going to survive this day.

"Sasuke-kun?" Sai asked with evident confusion in his voice. His smile also became rather forced while his eyes found Naru's panicked sapphires.

She couldn't even answer, which didn't hinder Ino from it. "Yeah, Sasuke-kun over there," she replied confidently, pointing to the tall raven, who stood behind Naru. "Naru's his property, so you'll have to go through him if you want her."

Shocked, Naru shook her head, mentally repeating what her dumb blond friend had just said. Finally getting the hang of it, she turned blazing eyes to the girl. "Are you fucking out of you mind?" she screamed.

"What the? Here I'm helping you and you're still unsatisfied? What the hell is wrong with you?" she threw back, glaring at Naru.

"No, what the hell is wrong with you?" she snarled and crawled towards Ino, again. "I told you to shut up about this whole Sasuke crap. He's got nothing to do with this!"

Distantly she could hear a low growl but she ignored it in favour for her blond friend.

"Of course, he has. You said he's your Prince Charming," Ino hissed and gripped Naru's cheeks, pulling them apart.

"Nou, I di~ no~" Naru answered, grasping after Ino to imitate the other girl. "Yo~ were the on~ te say he's~e fuckin~ brince. I wo~ld nev~r dare. He'd mu~der me in my dam~ sleep."

At this statement someone else snorted, but the two girls ignored it, being more occupied with each other.

"Wat a~ yo~ talkin~ abo~t. Yo~ said yo~ lo~v him, so why wo~ld he mu~der yo~. Yo~ makin~ no sense," Ino said, tears were already forming in her eyes. Naru could understand- this cheek-pulling hurt like a bitch.

"I NEV~E SAID T~AT!" she shrieked, as far as she could, after processing what Ino had said.

"But yo~ like him," she rephrased immediately and if she had been able to, she would have grinned like a lunatic when she saw Naru blush furiously. "So~ whe~e is the dam~ broblem?"

Naru felt dizzy and hot and all overwhelmed with the situation, so she squeezed her eyes together and did what she could do best: Be loud.

"HE THO~T I WAS'E FU~KIN~ GUY!"

Ino pulled her cheeks a last time full force and Naru squeaked because of the pain, before falling back right across the table. Her head met the wooden plate with a hard smack and the blonde girl groaned painfully. Not only hurt her damn cheeks- were probably red, too- but now she had lost another few brain cells, as if not enough people teased her about it already.

"Hag," she groaned pitifully and blinked several times disoriented. She could only make out a dark blob standing over her head.

"What the hell do you mean, he thought you were a guy?" eventually was Ino's screech.

Naru flinched at the volume, but thankfully her sight slowly cleared up.

"Just as I said, he thought I was a guy," she repeated and the moment she finished her sentence, she realized that the former blob had been Sasuke, who's patented Uchiha-death-glare was scarier than ever before.

Panicked like a deer in the headlights, she saw that Sasuke was about to move or say something, but he was interrupted- again. Suddenly, there was a heavy weight on her stomach and Naru coughed breathlessly.

"Are you fucking blind, man?" was the indignant screech of Ino's voice above her. The woman had sat on her belly, pointing her painted nail sharply at Sasuke first and then at Naru's face. "Look at those big blue eyes! What a guy has eyes like that? And she's a shrimp! She's always been a shrimp! And her eyelashes! Hello? No one in their right mind would think she's a damn guy!"

With every statement the blonde made Sasuke's face became darker and darker and Naru became smaller and smaller. Leave it to Ino to provoke Sasuke when he was already at his limits.

"Yeah and look at those glorious tits, you would never found them on a guy."

Naru squeaked when someone squeezed her breasts shamelessly. Looking up at Sasuke's handsome face she blushed like a ripened tomato, but when his eyes slowly travelled down her body, she also followed their way.

She had no idea where Ino had gone, but she knew that Sai was not supposed to sit on her, much less play around with her breasts, especially when Sasuke was around. Seeing the happy expression on his face, something in Naru exploded.

Everything up until now had been hell and Sai was the one who would have to pay for it.

After that, the dining hall turned into a torture chamber.


"You've broken two rips, one leg; gave him a concussion, half a swollen face, a blue eye, several bruises and knocked out another two teeth. Do you have anything else to say to that?" enraged the headmistress looked at the blonde girl, standing before her.

Right beside her were the cowering form of Hyuuga Hinata and the slightly nervous Yamanaka Ino. Against popular belief weren't those presences something new to her.

Naru had been going in and out of her office since this damn pervert of Jiraya had sent the tomboy to her with forged papers years ago. A little angel, who didn't go against her fellow students and teachers? She snorted. He had sent Satan's spawn to her and she had welcomed the damn brat even with open arms. That had been the case till only three days later the brat had sent one of her best teachers into depression. She might have even thought it had been all a misunderstanding, if not said teacher had returned a week later and after another three days with the girl had quit altogether.

Exactly that afternoon she had heard of Jiraya's escape and she hadn't been able to found the man for months.

The result- she had been left with the blonde devil. She couldn't transfer the girl back.

Later, when the blonde had befriended first the shy Hyuuga and then the Yamanaka, they had always arrived together, because where one was found the other two were near. This fact was enhanced when Naru became student council president. She would never understand why people had appointed her; even though Tsunade knew she did a good job- she deliberately overlooked the part about her grades.

However, the point was those three were nearly inventory of her office but the teens behind them were not! They were new! They weren't supposed to be in her damn office after only a week!

"He deserves even more," Naru's harsh voice interrupted her train of thoughts, bringing her back to the glaring topaz in front of her.

She narrowed her eyes. There was no other possibility. It could only be Naruto's fault that new students were sent to her damn office.

"What, please tell, deserves even more pain?" she asked, throwing her stapler at the stubborn girl. She easily sidestepped the objective, being used to it since her school transfer, and instead it hit the brunette boy at the door right at his head. Immediately he went down, whimpering because of the heavy pain. Beside him the girl with the weird pink hair flinched; probably scared of Tsunade's monstrous strength.

Tsunade's head switched to the sobbing boy. "What the hell is wrong with you? You're supposed to be a man, stop your whining!"

"Are you shitting me?" the boy, Inuzuka Kiba, she remembered in a dark corner of her mind, screeched at her. "I think I've got a fucking concussion! What kinda teacher throws a damn stapler at her students!"

"Shut it!" she growled and turned back to Naru. The teenage girl had a pout on her lips, her arms were crossed under her breasts and she was looking through the big window to her left. Tsunade knew that Naru was uncomfortable and the reason for it was the growling shadow in the room's corner.

Throughout the whole time the youngsters had been in her office, Uchiha Sasuke had not taken once his eyes off the cornered blonde, penetrating her with deep coal eyes, analysing her openly. Tsunade would have thought, the guy felt a least partly conscious of his staring, but he seemed totally oblivious of his strange behaviour.

"Naru," she said, keeping her gaze on the Uchiha. "You're going to overlook the festivals preparations for the next month."

Out of the corner of her eyes she saw Naru tensing.

"What the hell are you talking about? You can't do this! The match against Oto is next month! Ask Neji, he'll-"

Finally Tsunade returned her glare to the girl. "That wasn't a question, brat. You will do this and everyone else in this room will as well."

"But, Tsunade-sama-" Ino spoke for the first time.

"No buts. Half of the guys here are part of the student council and you just watched how Miss Uzumaki mutilated one of your fellow students."

Ino had a confused look on his face. "Half of- who else is in the council?"

"Besides Naru and Hinata, there is also Haruno over there and Uchiha over in his dark little emo-corner." Now, Sasuke finally managed to take his eyes off the golden blonde and settled his glare on the headmistress. "All of you will monitor the students during the next four weeks until the festival. You'll work together and you will get along, understood?"

"NO!" Naru screamed. "You can't fucking do this!"

"Of course I can. I AM the headmistress and you will do as I say!" Tsunade leaped out of her stool as her arms slammed on the wooden desk. Her chair slowly tippled over and fell with a loud crash on the floor. When Naru's eyes only narrowed, Tsunade glared even more. "Do you understand, Uzumaki?"

Naru averted her gaze and bid her lips stubbornly.

"Uzumaki!"

"Hai, Tsunade-sama," the blonde replied, the reluctance in her voice was palpable.

"Then, get out of here. All of you," she hissed.

Immediately her students got out, at the very front an enraged Naru, followed by the pouting Yamanaka who mumbled annoyed. "Great. Now, we've got to deal with her bitching." Then, Hinata hurried after the two blondes, a worried expression on her pale face. After her stumbled the brunette, still rubbing the large bump on his forehead, with Haruno Sakura right on his feet. The last one to leave was the Uchiha, who glared a last time at the headmistress before turning to the door and closing it after him.

Tsunade heaved a heavy sigh.

Those damn brats were giving her a headache.


This old decaying hag. She couldn't understand why the woman would do this to her, to Sasuke. She knew what had happened between the two and Naru might not have felt bitter about the incident from back then but it didn't mean she felt comfortable around the boy either.

All those years she had a crush on him, suffered because of their bad parting and Tsunade was ignoring it? That was unbelievable.

"Naru," cried someone behind her. Hinata, she realized and stopped in her steps.

Turning around, her eyes gazed upon her two best friends. Hinata had a compassionate look, maybe she was a little red around her cheeks because of Naru's fast pace, but altogether she looked fine and held a lot of empathy for her. Ino on the other hand was gasping for air and holding her sides. Naru snorted. The girl had no stamina at all.

"What?" the other blonde glared. "You realize, because of your childish behaviour we have to supervise the damn festivities? Do you know how much of a pain the 8th-graders are? They have no respect anymore."

Naru only stared.

"And I'm going to tell you now. I won't be the one to overlook those damn brats. The last time you asked me to do this, those guys poured black paint onto me. I could throw my best clothes away because the damn colour didn't come out of my hair even days later."

Ino began to whirl her hand around, trying to emphasize the meaning to her words.

"Never mind my new uniform. You know how much those costs, right? My father had been furious and grounded me! I mean, he'd never grounded me for the shit we've done before and then because of those kids I get a week sitting around at the house. It hadn't even been my fault."

Naru slowly turned her gaze to Hinata, who also looked at Naru blankly.

"Do you remember the time the cops took us home because we painted on the Danzou-monument? He had never said anything about that. Hell, he'd even paid the prize for the clean-up. Now that I think about it. I hadn't been to one to paint the damn statue to begin with. That had been you! Every time you did something I'm the one who's getting into trouble. And now, you're doing it again. I will so not supervise those brats!"

Right when Ino finished her rambling Naru and Hinata began to chuckle. While Hinata only laughed timidly, Naru's quiet giggle turned fast into a blown out laugh. After a while Ino also chimed in.

They were laughing quite a while- Naru already had a stomachache- when they heard the arrival of three pairs of feet, which halted directly behind Ino. Naru ignored them at first, preferring to let her feelings fade away gradually, instead of facing the dreaded dead on. It had to happen; she might have been able to avoid the confrontation with Sasuke for a short time, but she had known she could not flee forever. They were going to be fellow students again and they would have to talk during student council and their penalty.

Eventually, the last chuckles died away and she took a last deep breath. Then, she stood straight and looked through the space in between her friends' right at the three people who had been part of her childhood.

It was the first time she really got a good look on her old friends.

Inuzuka was the same as she remembered. He still had his brown mob of hair and the wild features of his family. The baby fat on his cheeks had vanished completely and left were two blazing red tattoos in the form of fangs on either one. The chin had become angular with overseen beard stubbles. He had a broad back and stood on long legs, covered by their school's uniform. Seemed the boy had hit puberty rather early.

Haruno Sakura had grown good as well. The young woman stood nearly as tall as Ino, Naru could tell. They both had the stature of a model with long legs, a slender waist and a humble chest. Hair long pink hair- never ever would Naru believe that it was natural- was flowing openly behind her back. Her round face was slightly painted with a warm mint-green shadow on her lids, rouge one her high cheeks and gloss on her small lips. She was wearing the same uniform as Naru herself with exception of the black tie, which was red in Sakura's case and she was wearing the official pumps in contrast to the blonde's white sneakers. Her emerald green eyes were looking at Naru intently.

She feared to lay her eyes on the last person.

Sasuke stood in between Sakura and Kiba, his stance tense and strong. His muscular arms were crossed over the slim torso. The hair was the same black tone she remembered, with the funny blue gleam. Naru had to supress a small smile when she realized that even his hairstyle hadn't changed much. It still stood up at the back of his head and long bangs framed the oval face stylishly. The only thing that differed from his childhood was the parting of his hair, which was no longer visible. Now, the young man had a fringe falling right into his eyes.

There was no longer any kind of baby fat on the handsome face, Naru sadly noticed. But the one visible feature which had stayed the same were Sasuke's eyes. She hadn't lied to Ino; she really had hated Sasuke's eyes. They were so deep there was no way to see the bottom; a dark pool of endless black. It had been Sasuke's eyes showing her the depths of her true feelings. She was happy she could recognize something from the stranger standing before her- a leftover from the boy with the cocky attitude. Those eyes would always make her lose her mind. Currently, they were looking at her with resentment.

"Are you really Naruto?" The voice was high and uncertain.

Sakura was kneading her hands nervously. She had been the one to ask the fated question.

Blankly Naru's eyes stared at the pink-haired girl. There was an unnerving silence around the teens, which was broken by Naru when Sakura dropped her gaze unnerved by the blonde's empty expression. Beside her Hinata shifted from the heavy pressure.

"No, I'm not," Naru answered, silencing Sasuke who was about to open his mouth as well.

"But-" Kiba interrupted but was also cut off by the golden blonde.

"I'm not Naruto," she began, staring directly into Sasuke's unreadable eyes. "My name is and always has been Uzumaki Naru."

Finally, she smiled gently at the three.

"Long time no see, Sakura-chan, Kiba-" her voice cracked audibly at the last name. "Sasuke."

There was no reaction.

"Hey," Ino whispered into her. "Do you think you broke them?"

Naru snorted.

"So, you're meaning to tell us that this whole time you've lied to us?" Sakura found her voice.

Naru glared at the girl's accusation. "I've never lied to you. I never told any of you people I was a guy. You all came to this ridiculous conclusion on your own."

"But you never told us the truth either," the pink-haired girl screeched offended. "Which means you messed with us th-"

"I had to tell you?" Naru asked wide-eyed, raising her voice. "You dared to call yourself my friend, so wouldn't it be natural to know whether I'm a boy or a girl?"

"You were our friend, too! You should have told us. You owed us at least that!"

"I owe you nothing!" the blonde screamed, enraged by the other girl's statement. "You never wanted to be my friend, Sakura. You only used me to get to Sasuke, just like all my other 'friends'," she spat.

Sakura flinched back under Naru's accusing eyes. Briefly the blue pools set on Sasuke before falling back on her. A cruel smirk formed on the blonde's face. "Seems you finally succeeded. Congratulations. How does it feel to be Uchiha Sasuke's attachment?"

Before she knew it, Sakura had grabbed her by the necktie and Naru had to watch up into the blazing emerald eyes. "How dare you! Say about me what you want but don't you talk about Sasuke-kun-"

The blonde started to laugh hysterically.

"Sasuke. Sasuke. Sasuke. Isn't there something else you can talk about? Every damn thing coming out of your mouth is connected to Sasuke. You haven't changed. You haven't changed one bit. You're just as pathetic as in the past."

The sound of skin on skin echoed around the school's halls. Naru hadn't even noticed the pain till she had realized she was no longer looking at the pretty face of Sakura. Then, the soft humming on her burning flesh reached her consciousness, but it didn't shock her. Sakura had always resorted to physical means when her words had shown no effect.

"Watch it, forehead!" Ino interjected and Naru was shoved protectively behind her blonde friend. Hinata tried to look at her sore cheek but Naru gently rejected the small hands. Her friend obeyed willingly.

She also pulled Ino slightly back, so the other three teens were able to see her. Her eyes found Sakura, again, and she tapped against the hurting cheek with the back of her hand. "Can't stand the truth, eh? You're feeling inferior because he's still not acknowledging you or is it something else? Maybe, you still want to become Mrs Uchiha Sasuke?"

"Don't you think that it's enough, Blondie?" Kiba came between the cat-fight, hiding the unresponsive Sakura behind his broad figure.

"I have nothing against you, dogboy. But don't come in between our crap. Sakura just got what she searched for," Naru answered the tall boy.

"Geez," he uncertainly rubbed the back of his head. "She just asked why you didn't tell us to begin with."

"No, she did not just asked," she told him. "She accused me of cheating her and getting near her precious Uchiha with unfair means."

"Well, then why didn't you tell us you were- are a girl?" Kiba asked. "Don't you think we deserved the truth?"

"No, you did not," she responded without thinking. "There was only one person, who-" She stopped, cursing. She knew to what that would lead.

"One person who would've deserved the truth?" he finished her sentence rhetorically.

Naru averted her gaze, feeling the guilt lying heavy on her shoulders.

"Of course, you're talking about Sasuke, aren't you?" he continued.

"Kiba, shut it," the blonde whirled back to glare at the brunette and avoided the dark gaze of the Uchiha.

"Leave it. All of us heard you. So what? You were just one of his little fangirls and-"

"Don't be ridiculous," she snarled. She felt offended by the mere idea. "I'd never grovel before the bastard's feet as one of his little groupies."

"So why?" the Inuzuka asked again.

Naru smiled ruefully looking down to her worn out sneakers.

"I can tell you why. What does it mean that I wasn't one of his damn fangirls? The instant he would have known I was a girl he would have left me behind anyways. The bastard had never let any girls near him and I hadn't noticed that he had thought I was a boy until it was too late.

"How should I have told him after he'd finally called me his best friend? There was no way I could have given up on our friendship."

Sadly she looked up.

"But what does it matter? He's left me nonetheless. It wouldn't have brought me anything to tell him in the end.

"Isn't that so, Sasuke?" she turned to the Uchiha, who hadn't said one word until now.

She wasn't expecting much. Sasuke had never been a talker and she wouldn't think he had changed in the department to suddenly talk to her like a waterfall.

"Hn," this, however, wasn't the answer she expected either.

"Of course," she hissed. "Why do I even bother? It's not like you care, isn't it? You damn, bastard."

That's it. She had enough of this whole discussion. She had no idea why she had to justify her actions to people that had no meaning and the only person who was important didn't even care.

"You know what? Fuck it!" she finalized, turning around. "School ends at four. You three will come to the student council's office instantly after the last lesson finishes. I'll tell you your tasks then. Don't come late. I'm not very patient. And bring that lazy-ass Shikamaru and the bug-freak. I won't let them off easily just because they skipped out on Tsunade's lecture."

Ino and Hinata were silently following her. They knew to leave her be when she had one of her mood swings until she had calmed down.

"Hey, I can't!" Kiba's voice ringed out after her. "There is-"

Again, he was cut off.

"Does it look like I care?" Naru spoke angrily, giving him the middle finger.


Wow, had been over a year^^° I'm really sorry for the people who were interested in this story. I didn't have any vigour to write on because I was so unsatisfied with my writing style. I always use the same words and I don't like that. Hopefully my vocabulary expended a little bit by now, and maybe, my grammar improved as well. Would be awesome. I really hope you guy's will give me some tips or things I should watch out for.

Ah, another thing: Writing scenes, where a lot people talk or are present while other talk are a bitch to write. Would be really nice when you guys would give a comment about those scenes, if they were okay or if they sucked?

Oh, and this chapter is dedicated to Natarii-loves-Chocolate-milk. She's an awesome writer. I love her stories and her writing style. Because of her I started to write again. Big thanx to you :D

I hope you'll like this chapter.

And to Sasuke. Some people wanted the chapter to be from his point of view but I rather wanted to give a little more from Naru's side and how she thinks about the incident from back then. Seems she's the only one who got over it. Sasuke hadn't really get it yet, that Naruto is a girl. He'll realize wholly in the next chapter. ;)

So, until next time.

Eisfuchs